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E. M. DEEYQ Apparatus for Transporting Ships Overland.

Patented Aug. 31,1880.

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NiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDYVARD M. DEEY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS `FOR TRANSPORTING SHIPS OVERLAN'D.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,658, dated August 31, 1880.

Application filed April 17, 1880.

To all ivhom 'it may concern:

`Be it known that I', E. Mon'rnunn Dnnv, of the'city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Transporting Ships Overland, of which the followin g is a specitication.

rlhe invention relates particularly to apparatus for transferring from the water tothe car, and vice versa, sllips that are to be transported in water-tanks, in which they are ioated, or nearly so; and it consists, mainly, of

the combination, in such apparatus,of the tank in which to iloat the ship on the car, the car, and a lock of doubleor two-part contrivance, one of which parts opens to the water in which the ships ioat to let them in or out, and in which the ships are raised Ato or lowered from the height at which they float into or out of the portable lock or tank resting on the car, while the other part of the lock has its foundation on a level with the railroad-track, and incluses enough of the same to receive the car and portable lock or tank, and submerge them while loading or discharging the ships. These two parts ot' the lock are separable by a gate which closes between them, when required, in case it may be wanted to retain the water in the upper or landward part from the discharging of one ship to the receiving ot' another, to economize the water, or to retain the water in the lower or seaward part from the loading` of one ship to the unloading of another.

The invention also consists of special improvement in the. portable lock or tank in which the ships are supported upon the car, which are, first, a peculiar construction of the bottomv of the tank to form the rest or seat for the ships, the said rest approximating the form of a ships bottom, as near as may be, to serve, with the addition of adjustable braces and elastic pads, for the support or partial support of ships having diffe-rent forms of bottom, and for the application of chain-stays to be strained against thebottom and sides ot' the ships and, second, the combination, with said chain-stays and elastic pads to be used in connection with them, of adjustable braces and elastic bearers arranged to be adjusted from the outside ot' the portable lock or tank after the water is discharged from around it.

Figure l is a longitudinal sectional eleva- (No model.)

gate O, to be elevated for loading upon the V car D by loating into the portable tank or lock E on said truck, or, when the ship is to be transferred from the` truck to the sea, to receive the ship, when full of water, from the car and lower it to the sea.

F is the upper or landward part of the lock, the bottom ot' which is on the level of the railroad-track G, a portion of which extends in said' lock nearly its whole length for'running the truck into it, and is shut in by the gates H.

The two parts of the lock are separated, when desired, by the Vgate I, which is here represented as arranged to sink in the space J, for

opening the passage from one to the other ot' the parts A and F, but may in practice be arranged in any approved way. i

K is a dischargepassa-ge, to be opened when desired by any suitable gate for discharging the water from part F without dischargipg part A.

For discharging part A any small gate of l approved form may be arranged in one or both ofthe large gates G.

Steam-pumps or any other source of watersupply will be employed for lling the locks, as may be found best.

It will be seen that to load a vessel from the sea it will be shut in part A of the lock by' gates G, and the front gates, H, being also shut, the two locks will be tilled with water to such height as will .float thc 4vessel into tank E, wherein it will be shut by closing gates L at the rear end of said tank,and also gates M at the front in case the tank has gates at both ends, as it probably will to save turning the ear around. When so loaded the water will be discharged from part F, the front gates, H, opened, and the power attached for drawing the car over the road, the ship being floated IOO or partly iioated on an even -bed of water in the tank, with which I also propose to employ the suspendingchains N and trusses 0, resting upon t-hel top of the tank, and being capable of shifting to let the vessels in and ont.

The chains will be provided with adjusting and tightening screws of any approved arrangement on the trusses for applying the necessary tension.

Upon the bottom oi' the tank for the support of the keel oi' the ship, and on a line each side of the keel, and also for the attachment of the suspending-chains at the lower ends, I have arranged the inverted-W-shaped structure P, in the groove of which the keel rests upon elastic blocks of cork or other suitable material, while along each side of the keel the bottom is supported by the ridges of said rest or braces S, made to shift up from said ridges against the ship by screwingup from below the bottom of the tank, with suitable intervening pads, Q, of cork, and along up the sides of the ship are other pads, It, strained against it by the chains, and also pressed up by the adjusting braces S, extending through the sides and bottom of the tank andA through screw-heads, which, being suitably secured to the walls of the tank by bars T and collars U or other equivalent means, so as to be turned by arms YV or otherwise, set the braces u p with the required pressure.

The braces are made to act at the inner ends either directly against the ship or upon the strong metal plates. X, suspended by the chains, to which, on the side next the vessel, the cork pads R are attached by the strong coiled metal orrubber springs Y. To afford protection ot' the ship against damage by too severe pressure of any one of the braces, and as a safeguard by which to enable the attendants to judge of the amount of pressure, and thereby gage the (adjustment of the braces, an indicator-rod, Z, is attached to the pad R with each brace, and

fixed to project out throughl the tank, preferably in a hollow bore of the brace, so as to show by the extension beyond the outer end otl the brace when the spring is contracted to the proper extent.

Where the lock-gates H close over the track suitably-formed pieces of hydraulic packing will be employed to tighten the joints.

The pads bearing against the sides of the ship may be in the form of long planks eX- tending from chain to chain, and having strength between the chains to lend considerable support to the ship. Soft light wood or other equivalent substance may be suitable.

I elaimv I 1. The combination, in apparatus for transferring ships to or from the sea from or to a car on a railroad-track for overland transportation, of the locks A and F, a section of railroad-track, G, a car on truck D, and a lock or tank, E, on said truck, said lockor tank El being a-lso arranged and provided with braces, whereby it may servev as a supporting-frame to the ship,l as described.

2. The inverted-W-shaped bed-rest P, combined with the portable lock or Jtrame E and the ship-car D, substantially as described.

3. The elastic pads suspended against the sides ot the ship, and adj Listing-braces S, combined therewith, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the portable tank or frame E, ot' the adjustingbraces S, plates X, springs Y, pads R, and suspending-chains, substantially as described.

5. The combination ofthe gage-rods Z with the adj Listing-braces S, springs Y, elastic pads It, and the portable tank or frame E, substantially as described.

EDWARD MORTIMER DEEY.

Witnesses: t

W. J. MORGAN A. P. THAYER. 

